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Leena Kiviranta; Eila Lindfors; Marja-Leena Rönkkö; Emilia Luukka – Educational Research, 2024
Background: Studies indicate that access to nature may increase general human health and wellbeing. As a learning environment, the outdoors can also positively influence children's personal and social growth, healthy development, wellbeing and learning abilities. To maximise the potential offered by outdoor learning, it is necessary to gain deeper…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Fatma Kurttekin – Religious Education, 2024
The aim of this study is to reveal the questions asked by children aged 4--6 about religious issues and to reveal adults' methods of answering these questions. The study, which was designed as a multiple case study, was carried out with Qur'an course teachers and the mothers who sent their children on the Qur'an courses. As a result of the study,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Religion, Islam, Mothers
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Hüseyin Kotaman; Mustafa Aslan – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of humour, teaching, gender, age, birth order, siblings, parents' level of education and income on kindergarteners' costly sharing behaviours. The participants consist of 106 kindergarteners enrolled in three public kindergartens in Sanliurfa. The participants interacted with two assistants,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Sharing Behavior
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Abdulhamit Karademir; Halil Alkan; Mehmet Canli – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The aim of this study is to compare the neurological status, developmental parameters and physical fitness of children who engage in regular physical activity in the preschool period versus those who do not. The study included 305 healthy children aged 4-6 years, consisting of 154 girls and 151 boys. In addition to evaluating the demographic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Physical Fitness, Physical Activity Level
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Anne-Line Bjerknes; Terese Wilhelmsen; Emilie Foyn-Bruun – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
Disagreement exists about how to best spark young children's motivation to learn natural science. Both curiosity and wonder are considered important motivational factors for learning during early childhood (0-8 years). This systematic literature review explores research about scientific curiosity and wonder in early childhood education and care…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Young Children, Student Motivation, Personality Traits
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Belgin Liman – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The preschool period is recognized as a crucial phase for fostering the social development of children. Self-regulation during the developmental period contributes to management skills in social contexts and thus helps establish positive standards of behavior for peer relationships. Effective interventions can improve self-regulation skills. The…
Descriptors: Self Management, Self Control, Peer Relationship, Young Children
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Emre Laçin; Betül Gökçen Dogan – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the parenting behaviors and parental self-efficacy of parents of typically developing and child with an intellectual disability, considering their children's groups of with or without intellectual disability and other relevant variables. The study involved 1194 parents with children aged 3-6 years,…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Self Efficacy, Intellectual Disability, Young Children
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Alper Aslan; Yigit Emrah Turgut – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
This study aims to investigate the use of mobile devices including smartphones and tablets in terms of mediation types of parents who have young children. In this case study, which is one of the qualitative research methods, criterion sampling was adopted for the selection of the study group. The fact that parents of 4-7-year-old children who use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Handheld Devices, Case Studies
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Canbeldek, Merve; Isikoglu, Nesrin – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Recently, coding and robotics education has started to be integrated into early childhood education in Turkey. The current study aims to investigate the effects of "Productive Children: Coding and Robotics Education Program (PCP)" on children's cognitive development skills, language development and creativity. Eighty children, enrolled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Coding
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Veziroglu-Celik, Mefharet; Acar, Ibrahim H.; Kaygisiz, Cansu; Koc, Irem Nur – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2023
Using a convergent parallel mixed methods design, the present study examined children's screen time and social behaviors through parents' perceptions. The participants were 113 children and their parents for the quantitative strand and 42 randomly selected parents for the qualitative strand of the study. Parents reported on children's social…
Descriptors: Computer Use, Social Behavior, Parent Attitudes, Peer Relationship
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Acar, Dilber – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
This study aimed to determine the "engineer" perception of 48- 72 month-old children in pre-school education. Phenomenological design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The study group of the research consist of 52 children between the ages of 48 and 72 months attending pre-school at one private and one…
Descriptors: Engineering, Technical Occupations, Childrens Attitudes, Kindergarten
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Zerrin Mercan; Adalet Kandir – Education 3-13, 2024
This study discussed the effects of the Early STEAM Education Program on the visual-spatial reasoning skills of children. A pre-test post-test experimental design was used. The study group consisted of 54 students who attended a state kindergarten in Gaziantep in Turkey. The effectiveness of the Early STEAM Education Program was tested by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Art Education, Visual Perception
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Özge Barata; Ibrahim H. Acar – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
The current study examined the direct and indirect contributions of children's temperament (reactivity, persistence, and rhythmicity), parenting stress, and bedtime routines to Turkish children's sleep behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample was 313 mothers of children between 16 and 84 months (M = 52.42, SD = 12.36). Mothers reported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Gürler, Serap Aktemur; Ömeroglu, Esra – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The current study was carried out to investigate the relation between the child-raising attitudes of parents and the mediating role for children's digital technology use. The study's working group was made up of 236 parents having a child at the age of 48-72 months and staying in the city centre of Kars. The sampling was formed by using simple…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Influence of Technology, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
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Kahraman Evrenkaya, Nihan; Ergül, Cevriye – Deafness & Education International, 2023
Children's early literacy skills (ELS) are closely related to literacy learning and reading comprehension performance. Children who cannot acquire early literacy skills face significant difficulties in doing so in the following years. Although it is widely known that children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) perform less well in early…
Descriptors: Literacy, Deafness, Emergent Literacy, Reading Comprehension
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